Roane-Hawkins-Sullivan County TN Archives Military Records.....HANSLEY/HENSLEY, Robert May 29, 1834
Revwar - Pension North Carolina line (multiple units)
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Robert HANSLEY Or HENLSEY, Revolutionary Soldier - Resident Of Roane Co, TN
Robert HANSLEY
Pension file NARA: S. 4323
Pension applied for in Hawkins Co, TN.
Lived in Roane Co, TN (1850 census - age 98)
Service in North Carolina (includes Battle of Kings Mountain; original
enslistment from what is now Sullivan Co, TN)
$60.00 Annual Allowance $180.00. Amount Received May 29 1834. Pension Started
Age 74 (1835 Pension Roll, Hawkins Co, TN).
Robert HENSLEY had claimed two years service and was eventually allowed a
pension for 18 months service.
He had to defend his claim in court in Hawkins Co, TN.
AKA Robert HENSLEY: His surname appears within his military record with several
variant spellings:
HANSLEY, HINSLEY, and HENSLEY.)
Additional Comments:
.......
NOTE: Robert, age 98, is found in Roane County, Tennessee for the 1850 census.
He is living with his son Benjamin HENSLEY in the 20th subdivision:
1850 ROANE CO, TN Page 339
House/Family # 241/ 251]
HENSLEY Benjamin 53 [ b abt 1796] 53 no occupa, b TN
HENSLEY Mary 53 [ b abt 1796] b North Carolina, cannot read & write
[this Mary "Polly" GALYON, daughter of John GALYON]
HENSLEY Nancy 21[ b abt 1828] b tn, cannot read & write
HENSLEY Marshall G 18 [ b abt1831]18 b tn
Although Robert HENSLEY is the next family ennumerated in this census,
the census indicates that he resides in the same house as Benjamin:
[1850 ROANE CO, TN Page 339 House/Family # 241/ 252]
**HENSLEY Robert 98 [ b abt 1751] b North Carolina, cannot read or write
HENSLEY Benjamin F 7 [ b abt 1842]b tn, school w'in the yr
HENSLEY Samuel 5 [ b abt 1844] b tn, school w'in the yr
[no occupation for any in B Hensley hhold]
The next family ennumerated is the Cooley family
(related to Benjamin HENSLEY's second wife Sarah (nee COOLEY) MONTGOMERY HENSLEY)
and then
family 243/254 is
HENSLEY, William , 20, no occupa
Elizabeth A 21, cannot read & write
John A. 2 months
all b in Tn
.......
Benjamin HENSLEY was the father of Margaret "Peggy" HENSLEY who married William
GILES 14 Sep 1835 in Roane County.
James Calvin "Calvin" GILES says in his Civil War questionnaire that his
grandfather Benjamin HENSLY lived to be 112.
I believe he was actually referring to Robert, who may not have lived to be 112
but who was *very* long-lived.
(Calvin's questionnaire with questions and transcription is viewable at
.)
Robert is not in Benjamin's household for 1860; he has likely died between the
two censuses.
At any rate, I have not yet located him in the 1860 census.
I believe both he and his son Benjamin are buried in Roane County, TN
(likely somewhere in the area where contemporary Roane, Loudon, and Monroe Counties
intersect and where county lines have shifted over the years).
I have transcribed Robert's service record (NARA S. 4353). (It is online at
.
A text-only version of the transcript is available from that page.
Sources:
1. Pension file of Robert HANSLEY (NARA S. 4323)
2. 1840 US Census of Pensioners Revolutionary or Military Services
3. US census - Hawkins and Roane Co, TN Population Schedules - 1830, 1840, 1850
4. Confederate Soldiers' Civil War Questionnaire (Form 1) of James C. GILES
Acknowledgements: My own early research grew oyt of leads provided by Larry and
John COCHEBOUR and Marty GRANT.
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